Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-20
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Miss Della Black, a sixteen-y ear-old
girl living at Apollo. Pa, weighs 4OS
pounds.
Mr.. 81. J, Howser was appointed and
sworn in as an examiner IN the pension
office last week.
Dan Peasants, colored, was lynched
near Baldwin, La, last week for MUIR
l.dering colored girl.
Hon. Joseph II Rainey colored, ex-
congressman from South Carolina, died
| last week in Georget
| Asdeputy sheriff in Baton Rouge, La,
last week shot and killed a colored man
because he was limp =
AT the last drawing Of the Louisiana
Lottery an organized body of colored
men in Cairo, Ill, struck it for $4,000.
Mr.. p. w. White, colored, Of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, was recently elected a
member of the board Of public
works.
The Southern Pacific Railroad, Texas,
has issued orders to conductors to cease
their attempts to keep colored passen-
gers out of first class cars.
Mr.. w. II. Lawson, colored, of LouiS--
vile, KY, is a first class artist and does
a large business painting banners and
preparing regaias for societies.
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The colored people of Kansas own
757, 900 acres OF land, valued at 1925
600, and city property valued at $685.
600 making a total of 80, 100000.
lobe Watkins, colored, while being
pursued last week at Fort Smith, Ark,
by an officer who was trying to arrest
him, was shot and killed by an officious
bystander.
. Hon. (?) George d. Wood, white, all
Eex-alderman of Waco, Texas, is under
arrest for criminal assault on a colored
girl II years old. Where is Judge
Lynch now?
The Colored State University Of Ala
bama, is to be located at Montgomery.
James Hale, colored, has been elected
treasurer. Faculty to be half white and
half colored.
DR.. D. II. Williams, of Chicago, has
been appointed one Of the committee Of
arrangements for the reception of Presi-
dent Cleveland on the occasion Of
his visit to that city.
Mr.. III. Downs colored, of Greenville,
Miss, who recently won $4,000 IN the
louisiana Lottery is a cotton planter of
considerable means and will know how
to invest his winnings.
There is a man living near Coleman,
Ga. who is the father of thirty-four
children. He is 81 years old, has his
third wife with babe at her breast, land
is as active as most men at fifty.
The colored minister of the church at
Foxyille, Va, Farquier county, gave no.
tice Sunday that he intended to purge
his church Of worthless members. That
night it was burned to the ground.
Mr.. @. j. Leyasseur, colored, of New
Orleans, La, has on exhibition a re-
duced fac smile of the magnificent
steamer, Edward ]. Gray, as the result
of six months labor with his pen knife.
Prof W. H. Council, the principal of
the State Normal and Industrial school
at Huntsville, Ala, has been forced to
resign his position to save the school
from being abolished by the legislature.
Last week, Alex Bell, colored, near
Jackson, Miss, was guilty Of cursihg a
white boy for which crime, Ross Lowry
anephew of the governor, shot Bell
through the lungs with a Winchester
rifle.
Mr.. John F. Jackson, colored, a grad
uate of Oberlin College, teaching in
Alabama, was elected from first class
caa on account of color, recently. He
has brought suit under the civil rights
bill for $4,000.
The subsidiary high court of Foresters
Eiclo oOSloCo Wy ttl zYoG0- GC
fight tooth and nail against the order OF
the supreme court of England in favor
i of admitting colored men into the or.
ganization. Minneapolis was chosen as
the next place of meeting.
Hon. w. ii. Jordan, Ex-State Senator
]. w. n. Stevens, Matt. N. Lewis, of Pc.
I tersburg; Giles b.. Jackson, Of Rich
mond JAS Robinson, of the Newport
News, Va; al colored, were last week
examined and declared duly qualified
to practice law in Virginia.
The jury, in the case Of Frank Langs-
i ton, after five times declaring their in
ability to agree, finally rendered YER
dict under positive instruction from the
court, Of murder in the second degree.
and fixed the term Of imprisonment at
/. eight years. His cousel gave notice Of
an appeal for new trial.
a strong colored baseball team will
make the tour Of California and the
4 South in October. The nine will in
clude stovey and Walker, Newark, N.
Us famous colored battery, Grant, the
crack second baseman, five members Of
the Cuban Giants, and Fowler Of the
Binghamptons under the management
of Jack Jackson.
Annie Watkins, colored, apparently
died a few days ago at Paducah, KY,
and her body was prepared for the
grave, and all arrangements were made